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Nuthill in the Domesday Book (1086)

Nuthill is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Nuthill is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Oakthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

Oakthorpe is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Goscote in LEC. The survey assessed Oakthorpe at 9 carucates of taxable land.

Most significantly, Oakthorpe is recorded as waste in 1086 - land rendered uninhabitable and valueless. Before the Conquest, the settlement had been assessed at 1 shilling; by 1086 that value had collapsed entirely. This pattern - prosperity before 1066, devastation by 1086 - is the unmistakable signature of the Harrying of the North , William I’s campaign of systematic destruction across Yorkshire in 1069–70.

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Oakworth in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Oakworth is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Oakworth at 0.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Oakworth supported a recorded population of 3 slaves.

The survey records Oakworth’s value at 1d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

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Occleston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Occleston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire. The survey assessed Occleston at 4 carucates of taxable land.

The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Occleston was worth 1.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 5d – a fall of 83%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

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Ockbrook in the Domesday Book (1086)

Ockbrook appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Morleystone

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Ockbrook is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Octon in the Domesday Book (1086)

Octon is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Octon is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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Odd Rode in the Domesday Book (1086)

Odd Rode appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Middlewich

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Odd Rode is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Odulfesmare in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Odulfesmare is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Dic

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Odulfesmare is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Offcote in the Domesday Book (1086)

Offcote appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Hamston

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Offcote is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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